Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Early design review for the Topics API (Issue #726)

@jkarlin Authoritarian regimes have a limited number of secret police hours to work with. Not all citizens and visitors can be fully observed at all times. Regimes will be able to use a lightweight remote screening system like Topics API to identify people for further, more resource-consuming attention like a full device search. Clearing Topics API data or using a browser without Topics API turned on could also be a factor in selection. And the set of possible callers is big enough that we don't know in advance which callers will be owned by, or have a data sharing agreement with, which governments.

The Topics API taxonomy is free of obvious sensitive topics, but can still encode sensitive information (such as people who like music A and food B in country C)

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